Horse Lords

support: TBA

VIERNULVIER

Fri 22.05

19:30 - 22:45

BALZAAL

Tickets

Experimental rock from Baltimore. Galop towards the Balzaal for their lengthy, hypnotic, polyrhythmic pieces that draw from Krautrock, Afrobeat, and Appalachian folk traditions, utilizing modular synthesis, algorithmic composition, and microtonal harmonies.

As an instrumental unit, Horse Lords rely on a collective voice and focus to provide the band’s core strength: a process enriched by their disparate musical interests. The ingenious machinery of their music is humanized with exploration and passion.

Guitarist Owen Gardner and saxophonist/percussionist Andrew Bernstein met in the ‘00s, the former steeped in global folk musics and experimental music, the latter a budding composer. As members of the rich Baltimore music scene, they met bassist Max Eilbacher, who has subsequently blazed a path in electroacoustic music, and drummer Sam Haberman.

Boundary pushing and yet surprisingly accessible, this instrumental foursome has mastered the finer art of musical ecstasy.

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You can simply coast along on the rhythm they create together. This is what Horse Lords’ music does: the system is working as it should.

– Pitchfork

“Conceptually, our music is always interested in the tension between the aesthetic, the political, and the material domains of art and the political muteness of instrumental music,” the band says. “How can we imbue wordless music with a radical political message? The whole project of Horse Lords is an attempt to answer this question, and all of our decisions, musical and otherwise, are informed by it.”

Since their self-titled 2012 debut album, on Baltimore’s Ehse Records, they’ve stayed true to their own artistic universe. Interventions (Northern Spy), from 2016, led off with a track called “Truthers” for a reason.

Comradely Objects, their latest from 2022, is assembled in a more leisurely fashion that nonetheless finds them sounding more focused and urgent. Now residing in Germany, the band released their live album As It Happened in 2024, and if anything it leaves its listeners wanting for the real deal. Luckily for you, you can experience it all live in our freshly renovated Balzaal in De Vooruit.